Category: Sponsor Overview

Nexcess – Large Scale Hosting With Experience

Nexcess has been hosting websites since 2000, and has grown to have many data centers and hundreds of employees. Nearly 20 years of experience has made them into an international powerhouse for hosting.

Nexcess supports WordCamps like Grand Rapids because they appreciate what the WordPress community brings to the web.

 

A2 Hosting – When Speed Matters

A2 Hosting got its start nearly 20 years ago, and has built itself into an international, independently owned hosting company focused on speed. Being independently owned means that the passion for success of the original owners is still in place.  Support staff are hand picked to be top notch at what they do.

With a core goal of being the fastest host around, A2 is a great option.

 

Liquid Web –  Rock Solid Hosting

Liquid Web is not only a rock solid managed WordPress host, but they’ve stepped things up in the hosting world with managed WooCommerce hosting. No longer do you need to worry about getting a store set up properly with a credit card processor, taxes, and shipping. These modules are all installed for you and maintained in an ongoing basis.

If you need hosting that is super fast, has great support, a world-class engineering team, and some features you won’t find anywhere else, check out Liquid Web.

 

LearnDash – The Most Trusted WordPress LMS

LearnDash’s WordPress LMS plugin is built based on deep learning industry experience. They have consulted extensively on learning programs for Fortune 500 companies as well as for the U.S. Government. Simply put: they know e-learning.

LearnDash is taking cutting edge elearning methodology and infusing it into WordPress. More than just a plugin, they provide practical and experience driven guidance for individuals and organizations interested in setting up online courses.

3.7 Designs – Engineering Great Design, Producing Big Results

People often ask what 3.7 stands for and why they have butterflies all over the place. In chaos theory, there is a concept called “The Butterfly Effect.” The Butterfly Effect is a theory where a single small input can cause a chain reaction of exponential growing outputs.

At 3.7 DESIGNS, we apply the concept of the butterfly effect to business. Creating small inputs (like a website, identity) that create exponential outputs (like business growth.)

 

Mindutopia – Local Powerhouse

Mindutopia is a Grand Rapids hometown WordPress development powerhouse. With world-class clients like HarperCollins, Amway, and Meijer behind them, Mindutopia has the experience, wisdom, and technical skill to build just about anything.

The Grand Rapids WordCamp crew are proud to have such great talent working locally and willing to support WordCamp.

 

GreenGeeks – Environmentally Friendly Hosting

GreenGeeks isn’t just another host.  Sure, they offer super fast servers, rock solid support, and all the other awesome things you’d expect from a WordPress Managed Host. But more than that, they have a positive carbon footprint.

This means that they actually produce more energy than they use, with the use of wind farms. If you need great hosting and the environment is important to you, check out GreenGeeks.

 

Global Sponsor Spotlight:  GoDaddy

GoDaddy powers the world’s largest cloud platform dedicated to small, independent ventures. With 17.5M+ customers worldwide and 76M+ domain names under management, GoDaddy is the place people go to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers and manage their work.

Global Sponsor Spotlight: DreamHost

When you put your dreams online — your words, your photos, your creations — you shouldn’t have to worry about your service provider mining that data for marketing purposes. DreamHost‘s open platform gives you the power to share your data and the freedom to control how it’s used.

 

Traitware – Changing Logins Forever

To really make a login page truly secure, it should have 2 Factor Authentication on it. But many people find this to be a pain. Who wants one more step on top of having to remember your password?

Traiteware has solved both of those issues. Rather that using a username and password and then entering a code texted to your phone, you can simply scan a QR code with your phone and you’re done!

Excited to give it a try? Sign up for a chance to win a standard plan for a year at TraitWare.com/wordcamp (signups taken until noon on July 22, 2018) or  head over to the WordPress marketplace to test drive the Secure Login plugin for free.

 

Global Sponsor Spotlight: WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an open-source, completely customizable eCommerce platform for entrepreneurs worldwide. Built by more than 350 contributors from around the globe, WooCommerce has developers at the heart. WooCommerce is a worldwide community, and here to help make your online store a reality.

 

Global Sponsor Spotlight: Jetpack

Jetpack is the ultimate toolkit for WordPress. It gives you everything you need to design, secure, and grow your site in one bundle.

With Jetpack, you can:

• Fully customize your site with free themes, image tools, and rich content.
• Increase your traffic through automatic social sharing, related content, and faster load times.
• Get a safer, stronger site via secure logins and protection from brute force attacks.

All these core features are free. Advanced features like daily backups, spam protection, and SEO tools can be added with one of three simple and affordable plans.

Best of all, Jetpack’s features are provided and hosted by WordPress.com — so there’s never any extra strain on your server when you activate or use a new tool.

Agathon – Motivated by a Commitment to Quality

Agathon began back in 1999 as a small team of people united by the conviction that the best job is the one you love doing. We wake up each morning ready to get started, and dream about solutions in our sleep. Too many other companies were clearly doing web development and hosting for a quick buck and it showed. They knew with hard work and a commitment to quality that they could do better, both as developers and as web hosts.

Today that belief has been proven. With nearly 20 years in business, hundreds of happy clients, and small, strong team, Agathon has proven that doing good can pay off.

Global Sponsor:  BoldGrid

BoldGrid works as a suite of plugins for WordPress to add a simple drag and drop website builder experience to the already powerful application. BoldGrid circumvents the steep learning curve innate with WordPress by making it intuitive and easier to use with features like drag and drop design, free pre-built themes, and more.

Global Sponsor:  Bluehost

Bluehost is a leading web hosting solutions company. Since their founding in 2003, Bluehost has continually innovated new ways to deliver on their mission: to empower people to fully harness the web. Based in Orem, Utah, they provide comprehensive tools to millions of users throughout the world so anyone, novice or pro, can get on the web and thrive with their web hosting packages.